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THREAD: Under a new law, thousands of prisoners in Louisiana have been cut off from ever getting a chance at parole. Why? Because an algorithm said so. 1/

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The legal prohibition against territorial conquest is a pillar of the current global legal order. Too bad it's dying. My latest for @wpr.bsky.social.

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HHS Secretary RFK Jr. is a danger to the public’s health and should resign or be fired, says APHA. In just a few short weeks, his actions on vacccines, fluoride and other public health science have shown how wrong he is for the job. Read & share our statement: apha.org/news-and-med...

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Quietly shrugging off a military purge: Cortez Masto Durbin Fetterman Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Kaine Kelly Kim Reed Rosen Schiff Slotkin Warner

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Great advice for securely archiving your documents, datasets, photographs and other digital data 📌

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Professor Helen Kinsella evaluates the US’s military’s detailed Instruction on Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response. Beyond Mere Inconvenience: United States and Civilian Harm Register for free here: ow.ly/Plyk50VrEeR

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Well, this is terrifying - clear signs of efforts to deploy the anti-terrorism apparatus against domestic political opponents

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"The combination of interest rates soaring amid a slump and the currency plunging despite rising interest rates isn’t what we normally expect for advanced countries, let alone the owner of the world’s leading reserve currency. It is, however, what we often see in emerging-market economies."

submitted 42 minutes ago • 13 comments

Immigration too often gets described with disaster language: a flood of immigrants, etc. But the flood of bad/cruel immigration policy out of this administration is actually the disaster, it is overwhelming.

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Death by DOGE. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/w...

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"RFK Jr. directed staff to fabricate 'evidence' to justify his crackpot beliefs rather than listen to and act on actual science." blog.ucs.org/dminovi/rfk-... another hard hit from my colleague @dminovi.bsky.social

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

Several thoughts about this very helpful interview on NYT w Chris Eisgruber, president of Princeton, about existential attacks on higher ed, how and what solidarity among American universities looks like. And why it's worth the listen. (Also a dopey headline.) 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/p...

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🧵 None of the humans with autism in our lives need curing & RFK & everyone like him can go to hell

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“I said this would happen…Dissent isn’t unlawful. It certainly isn’t treasonous. America is headed down a dark path. Never has a man so inelegantly proved another man’s point.” www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

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Aping Farage working out well for Labour here, I see

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Recap: Vance insulted our NATO ally Denmark in bizarre bid to take over Greenland Commander on the ground says his comments did not reflect the working relationship btw US and Denmark *She is fired The mildest pushback against their authoritarian fantasies is enough www.bbc.com/news/article...

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A look inside Scout Motors' electric vehicle manufacturing plant in Blythewood, SC, the largest manufacturing project here in Richland County in the county's history. We have it solely due to Joe Biden & @kamalaharris.com.

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FSB compromised a Western country's military systems in Ukraine via a "tainted" USB drive therecord.media/gamaredon-re...

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I keep thinking about how women are most at risk of being murdered by abusive men after they've decided to leave the relationship and it's not exactly a subtle comparison to what's being done to the USA at the moment

submitted 9 hours ago • 87 comments

Two of the most thoughtful colleagues working on European development finance in the FT & PROSPER discussing the EBRD as template for European rearmament bank. I'm surprised the EBRD hasn't already suggested this as part of its ongoing 'mission creep'.

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"The U.S. military announced Thursday it had removed Col. Susannah Meyers, commander of its Pituffik base in Greenland, stating it would not tolerate any pushback against President Donald Trump’s agenda." www.politico.eu/article/us-m...

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NEW | Estonian Defense Ministry spokesperson confirms the detention of oil tanker Kiwala, suspected of being part of Russia's shadow fleet of tankers

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#OnObedience

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NEW: China increases tariffs on US imports from 84% to 125%. The dollar is slumping. US bond yields are rising, threatening a debt crisis. Stock market is set for worst week since global financial crash. Trump is in a war he should never have started. And he doesn’t have the cards.

submitted 5 hours ago • 65 comments

Zuck/Meta making the Llama4 LLM models more right-wing essentially to appease Trump makes the whole GenAI game even more problematic than it already was. And being free-to-use open models means they will get that use, as they bake the bias even further in. www.404media.co/facebook-pus...

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Defence and tech industry chiefs have urged UK-EU leaders to deliver a defence and security pact as part of the UK-EU summit in May. More in the @financialtimes.com 👇 www.ft.com/content/26c7...

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At this rate, Trump is soon going to hold cabinet meetings like Turkmenistan's Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow

submitted 19 hours ago • 7 comments

And there you go — real world harm from PR-driven science wapo.st/3R88Yvc

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Federal agents wearing plain clothes tried to question kids at elementary schools in L.A. on Monday, according to a reporter at Spectrum News. "Superintendent Carvahlo said the agents claimed they had parent permission to question the kids, but it wasn't true"

submitted 19 hours ago • 205 comments

Universities. Maybe check how many courses you have that discuss the many successes of appeasement.

submitted 19 hours ago • 14 comments

They're gonna cut acquisition and contacting folks and then complain that it takes too long to buy stuff

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Re Trump signing an EO to hurt Chris Krebs for sharing true information about elections four and a half years ago, I realize we don't seem to have a word for using/abusing executive powers to punish and bully an individual. It's a particular and scary idea, but hard to swiftly articulate.

submitted 19 hours ago • 20 comments

Краснов

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Unfortunately for Trump, the US coal industry suffers from some truly unavoidable economic realities. Coal plants in the US are, on average, 45 years old. This aging fleet also has higher maintenance and upkeep costs for equipment than competing types of power.

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“DO NOT RETALIATE AND YOU WILL BE REWARDED”

submitted 19 hours ago • 2 comments

Coming tomorrow from Telegraph Towers: "I stubbed my toe in the bath... and the Democrats are to blame"

submitted 20 hours ago • 14 comments

The message from the Left should be: tariffs bad, industrial policy good. Sure, there are niche cases where tariffs might be useful as part of industrial policy, but it really weakens the message to add qualifiers. Fight unreservedly against the thing destroying the economy.

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Russian intelligence ship located in Irish-controlled waters not responding to communication

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"I'm a rich guy likes to buy access to public officials, and its a lot easier to do that with the Trump administration" is a compelling message.

submitted 20 hours ago • 13 comments

gamers and failsons are your base among young men Mike!

submitted 19 hours ago • 11 comments

Here's Part 2 of 3 from me, @adambonica.bsky.social, @rfunkfordham.bsky.social, & @ernestotiburcio.bsky.social. All the publicly available data suggests 2024 non-voters leaned Democratic and pro-Harris. data4democracy.substack.com/p/did-non-vo... 1/n

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A new video shows the interrogation of captured Chinese soldiers. The prisoners describe how communication with Russian command takes place and what weapons they receive. t.me/c/1377735387...

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Russian intelligence ship located in Irish-controlled waters not responding to communication www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

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❗Tightening loopholes: Russia finally sees sharp drop in restricted industrial imports propping up its military-industrial complex Russia imported $7.7B in industrial goods last year, down from $11B in 2023, with some categories dropping tenfold.

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Ohio will never turn itself around until its politicians stop lying like this to Ohioans. www.newyorker.com/podcast/poli...

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